DIALOGURI CU SENS – INTERVIURI CULTURALE
MEANINGFUL DIALOGUES – CULTURAL INTERVIEWS

Summary/Abstract: The 1970s interviews and literary studys of Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan's Subjective Dialogues and Discussion at the Table of Silence and Other Subjective Dialogues in Colaboration with Ana Blandiana books reveals the role of the interview as an instrument used to bring in the limelight artists that were active in the period between the two World Wars and who have achieved professional maturity in the 1970s. By using methods like text analysis, the contextualised integration into the communist society, and the comparison between interviews taken in different periods of time or with different authors, we've identified the distinct features of the two writers' interviews, the vast themes and the praiseworthy intent to provide the interviewees with the opportunity to express themselves freely in times of political and ideological censure. The first title of Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan's work - Subjective Dialogues (1971) - starts with a so-called "explanation" through which the authors reveal their purpose: to identify the conceptions, the principles and the convictions of the interviewed artists. This first "interview compilation" includes interviews with well-known personalities from the field of philology and with professors, academicians, engineers, architects, mathematicians, doctors and other professionals from the science elite, as well as four portraits of the remarkable historical personalities of Nicolae Bălcescu, Emil Racoviță, Lucian Blaga, Nicolae Labiș. The second title - Discussion at the Table of Silence and Other Subjective Dialogues in Collaboration with Ana Blandiana (1976) - continues the artistic and scientific dialogues with prominent personalities of the cultural world. The volume also includes the atypical twelve subjects interview with personalities that were contemporaries with Brancusi and who Romulus Rusans seats them symbolically around The Table of Silence in honor of Brancusi's genius. The Subjective Dialogues have documentary, historical, but also educative, cultural and esthetic value for 21st century readers.

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